Jon Rahm Is The Biggest Betting Favorite in Over a Decade at This Week’s Mexico Open

What do you get when you take the world’s top-ranked golfer on an epic hot streak and a non-Designated Event on the PGA Tour that only had a handful of top players taking part?

You get Masters winner Jon Rahm at a +260 favorite to win the Mexico Open at Vidanta, which are the shortest pre-tournament odds for a PGA Tour event in at least a decade.

Mexico Open odds 2023: It’s (almost) Jon Rahm vs. the field. https://t.co/ErSLnHJ6kf pic.twitter.com/13zxjYI4Du

— The Loop (@GoToTheLoop) April 25, 2023

Rahm was +350 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am earlier this year and also at the Fortinet Championship in 2021, which was the shortest odds for any player since sports betting was legalized outside of Nevada in 2018.

For the last time, a golfer was a sub-+300 favorite, you’d have to go back to vintage Tiger Woods when he was a +275 favorite at the 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Woods won that event by two strokes over Justin Rose for his eighth and most recent win at Bay Hill.

Last year, Rahm won this event at +500 by a stroke over Tony Finau, Brandon Wu, and Kurt Kitayama. Finau and Wu are in the field. Finau (11^th) and Wyndham Clark (14^th) are the only two other players inside the top 20 FedEx Cup points in the field in Mexico. Finau’s odds are +800, and Clark is at +1600 to win. Every other golfer is at least +2200.

This tournament a year ago marked the only win of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season for Rahm. This year, he comes in having already won on four occasions, including a dominant Sunday at Augusta that gave him his second major victory.

Jon Rahm is +280 to win the Mexico Open.

This marks the 4th time since 2019 that a golfer has opened at +500 or shorter — all of them are Jon Rahm.

2022 Mexico Open (+350): 🏆
2021 Fortinet Championship (+400): MC
2020 TOC (+500): 10th pic.twitter.com/cdIt6kGOAH

— Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood) April 24, 2023

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